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L6 - Introduction to Drosophila Flashcards

1
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Positives of mice as animal models?

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Good genetics

Well established model

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Negatives of mice as animal models?

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Expensive
Slow reproductive cycle
Ethical restrictions/home office

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Positives of chicks as animal models?

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Accessible embryology

Low cost

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Negatives of chicks as animal models?

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No genetics

Ethical restrictions/home office

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5
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Positives of zebrafish as animal models?

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Accessible embryology

Reasonable low cost

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6
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Negatives of zebrafish as animal models?

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Genetics problematic

Ethical restrictions

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7
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Positives of drosophila as animal models?

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Accessible embryology and adult developmental stages 
Very low cost 
Fast reproductive cycle 
Good genetics 
No ethical restrictions
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8
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Negatives of drosophila as animal models?

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Not a vertebrate

Kept at live stocks

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Drosophila life cycle

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Live around 60 days
Life cycle
- 10 days at 25oC
- 21 days at 18oC

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Drosophila life cycle stages

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  1. Fertilised egg (cleavage)
  2. Syncytial blastoderm (gastrulation)
  3. Embryo (hatching)
  4. Larva
  5. Pupa (metamorphis)
  6. Adult fly
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Drosophila history - 1910

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Morgan discovered a white eyed fly

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Drosophila history - 1913

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Sturtevant constructed first genetic map - genes arranged in a linear order

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Drosophila history - 1914

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Bridges showed that chromosomes must contain genes

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Drosophila history - 1927

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Muller showed that X-rays cause mutations and chromosomal rearrangements

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Drosophila history - 1980

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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric Wischaus undertook a saturation mutagenesis to identify genes involved in development and patterning of larval cuticle

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Drosophila history - 1980s

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Technical and methological advances

  • P-element transformation - transgenics
  • Enhancer trap - promoter trapping
  • Gal4/UAS - gene misexpression
  • FLP/FRT - clonal mutant analysis
  • RNAi - ex vivo and in vivo
  • ‘omic’ technologies - genome, transcriptome, proteome
17
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Drosophila history - 2014

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Drosophila melanogaster genome release 6

  • 143 million bp
  • 137.6 million bp on the 7 chromosome arms
  • Remaining gaps of around 1.5Mbp all in heterochromatin regions
18
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Drosophila melanogaster ptp61F - a tyrosine phosphatase sequence was compared to?

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Drosophila simulans - 3.4 my
Drosophila erecta - 6.8 my
Drosophila ananassae - 9.5 my
Drosophila pseudoobscura - 23.7my
Drosophila virilis	- 34.5my  
Protein encoding exons are conserved – don’t  diverge as quickly
19
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How many offspring can flies produce in roughly 2 weeks?

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Around 200

20
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How is Drosophila courtship passed down generations?

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Strong reproducible behaviour
Genetically encoded (not learned)
21
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What are some examples of Drosophila courtship?

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Orientation 
Tapping 
Wing vibration 
Licking 
Attempted copulation
22
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In flies what does the testes consist of?

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Consist of hub cells
Stem cells located adjacent to hub
Cells further away differentiate

23
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What do Hub cells secrete?

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Unpaired - JAK/STAT pathway ligand

24
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Oogenesis

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Females only need to mate once in lifetime
Seminal receptacle stores sperm
Eggs drilled into food when laid

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How are stem cells maintained in the embryo?

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4x incomplete cystoblast mitotic divisions
Selection of future oocyte
- Nurse cells - endo-reduplication
- Oocyte 
  - Diploid nucleus
  - Meiotic recombination
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What does the fly sperm fuse with?

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The female pro-nucleus

27
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What is the function of nurse cells?

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They are support cells

Supply egg with protein, yolk, RNAs - maternal contributions

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How are the maternal contributions from nurse cells transferred into oocyte?

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Transferred into developing oocyte via cytoplasmic dumping

Occurs via ring canals

29
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How are nurse cells replicated?

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Endo-reduplication
- DNA replication without cytokinesis
Many copies of the genome

30
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What are polytene chromosomes?

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All sister chromatids lie together
Bands - little gene activity 
Interbands - active genes
Puffs - extremely active gene
5000 bands - each 22 kb
31
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Microtubule transport is used to?

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Aid subcellular localisation

  • Minus and plus ended motors
  • Glue anchors them in position
32
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What is chorin?

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Egg shell

Secreted by the follicle cells

33
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What is the vitelline membrane?

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Hydrophobic

Protects from drying out

34
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What does early development via nuclear divisions look like?

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Nucleus replicates DNA with no cell division

Uses maternal material form nurse cells

35
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What happens after the 14th nuclear division?

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Membranes grow from outside and each nucleus gets pinched of into its own cell

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